Popstring.mui

Super class

Inherited by

Background

Popstring class is the base class for creating so called popup objects.
Usually, a popup consists of a string or text gadget, followed by a little
button. Pressing this button brings up a little window with a listview and
lets the user choose an entry with the mouse.

Popstring class features the basic functions for creating such objects.
Given a string object and a button object, it places them horizontally and
sets up some notification. Whenever the popup button is pressed, a hook will
be called which itself should open and prepare the popup window.

The string and the button object are not created by popstring class, they
have to be supplied as attributes during object creation time. This makes
popstring class very flexible, one could e.g. use a text object instead of a
string or a popup button with some text in it.

However, creating simple popups with popstring class would be too much
overhead. Instead of using it directly, you should have a look at one of its
subclasses. They offer a more specialized set of popups and are a lot easier
to use.

Methods

MUIA_Popstring_Button

NAME

FUNCTION

Specify the button object to be used in the popup. Depending on the type of
your popup, you should use an image button with MUII_PopUp, MUII_PopFile or
MUII_PopDrawer here. However, its also possible to have a button with some
text or other things in it.

When the popstring object is disposed, the string and the button objects are
disposed as well.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Popstring_CloseHook

NAME

FUNCTION

Whenever the popup receives a MUIM_Popstring_Close method and the popup is
currently opened, this hook will be called. It will receive a pointer to
itself in register A0, a pointer to the complete popup object in A2 and a
pointer to a struct

{
Object *stringobject;
LONG success;}

in A1. The success parameter is a copy of the methods success parameter and
indicates whether the popup was closed successfully (e.g. with a double
click in a listview) or was just cancelled (e.g. by pressing the popup
button again for toggle popups).

Due to internal message handling issues, calling the close hook is delayed
until the next MUIM_HandleInput method is called. This allows you to remove
and dispose windows without danger.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Popstring_OpenHook

NAME

FUNCTION

Whenever the popup receives a MUIM_Popstring_Open method, this hook will be
called. It will receive a pointer to itself in register A0, a pointer to the
complete popup object in A2 and a pointer to a pointer to the string
object contained in the popup object in A1.

When this hook returns TRUE, MUI assumes the popup was opened succesfully
and will disabled the popup button (as long as MUIA_Popstring_Toggle is not
set). Return FALSE to indicate that something went wrong and the popup could
not be opened.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Popstring_Toggle

NAME

FUNCTION

Set/Clear the toggle mode for a popstring object. With toggling disabled,
the popup button will get disabled whenever the user hits it and the popup
opens. With toggling enabled, the popup button always stays enabled and can
be used to cancel (== close with a FALSE return value) the popup.